CIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press.
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Edward Snowden
Shailene Woodley
Lindsay Mills
Melissa Leo
Laura Poitras
Zachary Quinto
Glenn Greenwald
Tom Wilkinson
Ewen MacAskill
Scott Eastwood
Trevor James
Timothy Olyphant
CIA Agent Geneva
Ben Schnetzer
Gabriel Sol
LaKeith Stanfield
Patrick Haynes
Rhys Ifans
Corbin O'Brian
Director
Oliver Stone
Screenplay
Kieran Fitzgerald
Tagline
"The only safe place is on the run."
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$40,000,000
Revenue
$37,357,216
Production
KrautPack Entertainment, Vendian Entertainment, Endgame Entertainment, Wild Bunch, Open Road Films, TG Media
Reno
December 24, 2016
**He who became a people's hero by betraying his own nation!** I had like to begin by saying I'm not an American and I haven't seen the Oscar winning documentary 'Citizenfour'. But I'm very much aware of everything about it through the all kinds of coverages. So my perspective about the film will be true and about the content will be neutral. I have known about what this film dealt since the da...
David Perkins
January 7, 2017
JGL plays a pretty convincing Snowden or at least I think he does as I've only seen the real Snowden in video and Citizenfour. I don't know exactly how correct the movie is to the actual story but as most of these things go, the movie will have been created with a slightly exaggerated storyline and version of events. An enjoyable watch and a big tick for me was that the coding and terminology u...
Frode Lindeijer
July 21, 2017
Although the movie is not perfect, it's flaws are limited, minute and easily ignored. **A must-watch for anyone using a computer!** This adaptation of Snowden's transformation from a talented programmer working for the United States secret service into a planetary hero really takes the viewer deeper into the true story on which this film is based. It shows the human side of the path towards rev...
GenerationofSwine
January 14, 2023
What happened to Oliver Stone? Once upon a time you could sit down and watch a film, and knew he was the director just by the cuts alone, not to mention the atmosphere and over-all look of the presentation. This doesn't look like an Oliver Stone film. The script sounds like a Stone film. The plot is certainly an Oliver Stone plot. The subject matter and how it's handled is totally Stone. But...
Filipe Manuel Neto
March 24, 2023
**It's a forgettable film, with nothing remarkable about it other than the fact that it makes an open defense of Edward Snowden and what he did.** Oliver Stone has given us a film that could not be more controversial: a biography of Edward Snowden, an ex-military and former US spy who worked as an intelligence analyst for the CIA and the NSA. It's not worth getting into the script, almost every...
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